In re Metzner

BlaND, Judge,

delivered tbe opinion of the court:

The Pimary Examiner of the United States Patent Office rejected as unpatentable over certain prior art patents claims 1 to 20, inclusive (being all the claims in the application and all the claims on appeal here), of appellant’s application for a patent relating to strip feeding means for writing and imprinting apparatus.

Appellant’s invention involves an improvement in the feeding mechanism for the proper passage of punctured paper strips through a paper feeding, record making device. The invention is described by the examiner as follows:

The…